SCEC Community Workshop: SCEC Earthquake Simulators Workshop

SUMMARY: This workshop is intended primarily for those who are participating in the SCEC Collaborative Project on Comparison, Verification, and Validation of Earthquake Simulators. We will look at the status of our comparisons on several problems that we are presently working on and will consider what our next work should be. The problems under investigation include 1) ones on single faults for which the differences can be examined in detail, and 2) large multiple-fault problems for which only statistical comparisons are possible. Current multiple-fault problems are a simplified Northern California model having only strike slip faults and an all California problem using the UCERF2 fault model. The hope is that the results of such Earthquake Simulators might be used as part of the input to the UCERF3 deliberations. Before that can be done with some confidence we need to determine how the different simulators compare with one another and with historic and paleoseismic data.